Supports Christie Administration’s Focus on Growing State’s Technology Industry TRENTON, N.J. (March 15, 2011) – New Jersey continued its efforts to support the growth of the state’s technology industry with the approval today of two new venture fund investments. The Board of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) voted to invest $3 million in […]

Mario M. Casabona aims to create a dozen highly motivated entrepreneurs — and New Jersey will be paying for it. The 63-year-old Kinnelon businessman, an Italian immigrant who built and then sold his own electronics R&D company before becoming an angel investor, is set to create the state’s first technology start-up accelerator. Read more of […]

Contact: Erin Gold New Jersey Economic Development Authority (609) 858-6718 egold@njeda.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EDA ACTS TO ADVANCE NEW JERSEY’S FIRST TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR PROGRAM Supports Christie Administration’s Commitment to Entrepreneurial Development TRENTON, N.J. (Feb. 22, 2011) – New Jersey is looking for the next Google. With an eye toward nurturing the next generation of technology […]

The state Economic Development Authority will temporarily stop accepting applications for residential projects under the Urban Transit Hub tax credit program, agency officials said today, as the demand for residential tax credits has outpaced availability. Read more of this entry

NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ-Watson Pharmaceuticals, among the largest pharmaceutical firms in the US, has taken 32,000 square feet at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s Technology Centre of New Jersey here to establish a Global R&D Technology Center. Read more of this entry

NORTH BRUNSWICK — The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) has awarded its Soft Landings International Incubator designation to the Commercialization Center for Innovative Technologies (CCIT), which is part of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s (EDA’s) Technology Centre of New Jersey in North Brunswick. Read more of this entry

New Jersey businesses aiming to increase the amount of business they plan to do overseas would receive a boost under a $50 million loan program with Citibank approved by the state Economic Development Authority on Tuesday. Read more of this entry

By: Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno Since taking office in January 2010, Governor Chris Christie has chosen a new direction for New Jersey – lowering taxes, reducing bureaucracy that stifles economic development, and restructuring government so that the Garden State is a place where business growth is fostered and encouraged. Read more of this entry